Thanks, Timethief, but last year, I used the very same credit card to purchase a wordpress upgrade for yet another of my sites. Paypal works fine with Kenya. Yesterday, I decided to use Paypal to pay for my upgrade. I got a notification that my credit card had been charged some 18 dollars, but my site has not yet got the upgrade. What could be going wrong?

Awwww. Okay, let me check with the other companies offering domains for sale. If you can, kindly send me the url to the WordPress that deals with redirection of domains purchased elsewhere to wordpress.com blogs.

I'm still wondering why, less than an year after I purchased a similar upgrade using Visa, wordpress would suddenly stop accepting Kenyan debit cards.